Willy Van Der Meeren

Rooted in a firm socialist credo, Willy Van Der Meeren (1923-2002) championed an architecture for the masses'built logically, with as little material as possible, and endowed with the necessary elegance to make it through the day. Van Der Meeren did not preconceive architecture, nor did he postproduce it. He thought, acted, and built in the now, at a scale of 1:1. His architectures'almost without exception'are clear prototypes, awaiting mass production.